“We’ve had ideas flowing for so many months—now that we finally get to put them on paper it feels good.”
“I’m on FIRE”
“Working with you was perfect because you had that outside of the box thinking and you could better organize the thoughts we had. Something that we would discuss for hours—for days, in less than 2 weeks we were able to reach that level of detail with you guys.”
“We’ve got more done in the last 4 hours than Sam and I have achieved in the past couple of weeks”
“I wish we did something like this a couple of months ago.”
You’ve got no shortage of Vision. But you can’t build that Vision yourself. Getting it built means entering
into the world of Nerds.
As someone who doesn’t speak the language of Tech, interfacing with that world can be
exhausting. You can spend hours digesting the jargon, the buzzwords, the endless list of frameworks,
platforms, and providers. But that’s time you could spend doing what matters most to any founder:
A process for taking your vision and translating it into something that designers and developers can execute.
A process that helps you lean into your strengths as a non-technical founder, letting you focus on your business while the Nerds stack bricks
Here, you’ll learn step-by-step how our 25+ clients got their ideas out of their heads, into development, and published on the web and app stores.
You’ll learn how you can handle this process yourself, and what sorts of technical partners you’ll need when it comes time to execute.
You’ll learn how to avoid some of the errors that have costed other non-technical founders $100K+, and see examples of successful folks coming from backgrounds like yours.
I’ve earned my Nerd stripes: I have an undergraduate degree in Mathematics, studied for my Masters in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, and started my career in robotics at Romotive (now Zipline).
Since leaving Google in 2015 and starting my startup consulting agency, I’ve grown this company to 10+ nerds across 4 different countries, been featured in Bloomberg, and have helped more than 25 companies launch their MVPs and raise a combined $650M in fundraising.
And I’m going to show you how to do the same.
Loper Concierge Prototype
52Fables Landing Page
Kickstarter
Heyway
Blueverse
Validate WHO your customer is and WHY they want your product with a testable offer, not a list of features nobody cares about.
Start with storymapping & wireframes to build complete products, not sexy but impossible designs.
Collaborate with partners to develop accurate timelines and estimates, not worthless proposals.
With 30+ products launched, we work exclusively with brilliant non-technical founders who just need help managing the tech side of their startup.
We act as your “cofounder-for-hire,” with our leadership present at all times.
We’re not an agency—all of our designers & developers are in-house working from the same virtual “office”.
“I’m on FIRE.”
We’ve had ideas flowing for so many months—now that we finally get to put them on paper it feels good.
Working with you was perfect because you had that outside of the box thinking and you could better organize the thoughts we had. Something that we would discuss for hours—for days, in less than 2 weeks we were able to reach that level of detail with you guys.
We’ve got more done in the last 4 hours than Sam and I have achieved in the past couple of weeks.
I wish we did something like this a couple of months ago.
James understands what it means to work with a startup where every dollar counts.
Thanks to him, we were able to bring our products to market much faster than we could have ourselves.
After an entire year of working with another firm, our app just did not work—the core feature was broken and the app drained the battery.
James was able to research the problem and find a workable solution in a matter of weeks.
After three years of other agencies promising a lot but delivering little, getting to test a prototype after just one week was very cool.
From the first time we sat down, I really felt James & team got what I was trying to do.
James and his team stepped in at a critical moment in Wellness 4 Humanity's trajectory and delivered exactly what we needed to hit our deadlines and expand the public's access to quick and easy COVID testing.
Without them, the launches of our national vending machine network and our flagship New York clinic would not have been the successes they were.
Going back to the overall process, I am really enjoying it and think that it’s 100% worth the cost. I’ve learned a ton so far and really appreciate the depth. Now that we’re in it I can’t imagine how it could’ve gone any other way.
You’re going to go from idea to sellable offer in just one week. That’s everything you need to start selling customers, or even raise seed capital.
We’re going to take that offer and turn it into a high-level Product Story and fully clickable wireframe prototype one week later. That includes every little feature we need to develop to get you to launch.
We’re going to wrap that clickable prototype in a sexy design, have our development team research what it’s going to take to make it work, and build a full development roadmap, complete with an exact timeline and a guaranteed cost estimate.
On Your Own
Research Your Idea
Show it off to friends and family.
Build a list of features and hope for the best.
With No Nerds
2 day intensive workshop.
Build your “Offer” Story, describing how your customers will encounter and acquire your product.
A landing page to generate interest.
A sales prototype that demos that offer.
3-5 real customer interviews.
Examples
1-Week Offer Workshop
Interviews & HMWs
Long Term Goals & Sprint Questions
The Map
The Storyboard
The Prototype
On Your Own
Take list of features to designers.
Define features based on “benchmark” competitors.
Create a sexy design and hope your devs can build it.
With No Nerds
1-2 day intensive workshop.
“Product” Story, describing how your customers will onboard and receive value from your product.
“Wireflows” laying out all the paths your customers can take.
A clickable wireframe prototype, reviewed by our tech team for feasibility.
Examples
The Map Strikes Back
The Flows
The Frames
The Wireframe Prototype
On Your Own
Developers review spec & designs, come up with ballpark timeline.
Devs plan the project around what’s easiest to deliver first.
Devs deliver an “estimate” with no guarantee.
With No Nerds
1-2 days of intensive sessions.
Full product backlog, including every “Use Story” involved in your product.
Full design for getting your product to launch.
Technical analysis document.
Week-by-week timeline.
Guaranteed cost quote.
Examples
The Designs
The Research
The Timeline
The Estimate
The Roadmap
Value: $20K
Value: $16K
Value: $10K